Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) Rossino It shatters the widespread conviction

It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually when it became a military necessity

Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution

to reveal how these elite marksmen lived

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No other Civil War battle claimed as many general officers

Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) Rossino It shatters the widespread convictionby Louis L. Picone Chronicles Ulysses S. Grants transformative three year world tour, revealing his travels, encounters, and enduring legacy. In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, newly departed from two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust